fVery impressive resume numbers!
Here's mine...

• I am a dynamic figure often seen scaling walls and crushing ice.
• I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention.
• I translate ethinic slurs for Cuban refugees.
• I write award winning operas.
• I manage time efficiently.
• Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
• I woo women with my sensous and god-like trombone playing.
• I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed.
• I can cook 30 minute brownies in twenty minutes.

• I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
• Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants.
• I play bluegrass cello.
• I am the subject of numerous documentaries.
• When i'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard.
• I enjoy urban hang gliding.

• I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie.
• Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of courduroy evening wear.
• I don't perspire.
• I am a private citizen, yet, I receive fan mail.
• I have been caller number 9 and won the weekend passes.
• Last summer, I toured New Jersey with a travelling centrifugal force demonstration.
• My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in internation botany circles.
• Children trust me.
• I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.
• I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening.

• I know the exact location of every food in the supermarket.
• I have performed many covert operations for the CIA.
• I sleep once a week.
• When I do sleep, I sleep in a chair.
• While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery.

• The laws of physics do not apply to me.
• I balance, I weave, I dodge and my bills are all paid.
• On weekends, I participate in full contact origamy.
• Years ago, I discovered the meaning of life, but forgot to write it down.
• I breed prize winning clams.
• I have won bull fights in San Juan, cliff diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
• I have played Hamlet, performed open heart surgery and spoken personally with Elvis.
• But I have not yet restored my pickup...

 

Gee, Ya gots to have on chest high waders to come in here. This sheeet is really deep.


John

 

now wait one second here, what the heck could be better then spending your time playing with automobiles????????

 

Don't know Brady, I sure as heck can't think of anything!!!!!

 

Playing with my star wars action figures in my moms basement where I live is better than you rusty ol' cars!

 

I totally crack myself up

 

That's easy to say if one has never worked in the car biz.

You come home from whatever job you do, and head to the garage.

Spend nearly every day of 46 plus years working on cars as a paying job...then tell me how much fun it is.

As the years pass...the love of cars fades away....you come home from the job...and hope you never see another car again.

 

Winchester 32...that could be: .32-20 or .32-40.

.32-20 = Winchester Models 1873 and 1892.

.32-40 = Winchester Model 1894.

Deer hunting: Prolly used the .32-40.

The .32-20 is an anemic round at best, and is more suited for varmits.

Winchester Model 1895 calibers: .30 US (aka .30-40 Krag) / .30-03 / .30-06 / .303 British / .35 WCF / .38-72 WCF / .40-72 WCF / .405 WCF
Only the .38-72 and .40-72 calibers were available wth octagon barrels, and only thru 1909.

The Russian Czarist Gov't bought 293,816 Model 1895 Muskets in 1915/16.

The caliber was: 7.62 Russian: a rimmed case similar to a .303 British round.

 

Did everyone see the posting by numberdumming on ebay? Item # 320213507097
Someone gave you the WRONG info on the DSO number. 1600 does not mean that only 1600 were produced. The truck was originally a DOMESTIC SPECIAL ORDER. When someone orders a vehicle special the usual two digit DSO becomes 6 digits. The first two digits reflect the Ford sales district where the vehicle was ordered from (58 = Twin Cities MN). The last four digits are for the FORD INVOICE NUMBER for the special equipment added. Special equipment may not be found in parts catalogs, so if the special equipment needs repairs, the dealer will contact Ford, give them the 6 digit DSO, and Ford will tell them what was special and where to find the parts. This same system is STILL used today. Special equipment in this case may only be the non standard color. Bill Retired Ford parts manager / Ford author/historian/collector/
Then he posts on https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...ple-eater.html
The "experts" told him that.

Read the comments posted by fellow ebayers (at the bottom of the listing) to see the sellers response on who the "experts' are.

There's also the correct DSO info posted. A fellow ebayer (who would NEVER claim to be an expert), gave him the correct info.

An expert IMO, is someone who skims thru one book, and then claims to know it all.

In this case, the experts are totally clueless....and know about as much about old truck values, as a mule knows about lap dancing!

__________________
Bill / Retired Ford Parts Manager / Part Number Research / Trucks: 1948/91 / Cars: 1949/79

It appears by the posting above that he is a military historian. He claims to be an expert.
Another ebayer disproves him as to the real decoding of the D.S.O.
One more piece of information about ford f100 trucks. the dso indicates that this truck was indead delivered from the Twin Cities Plant but the 1600 indicates that this was the 1600th truck with special order equipment delivered from this plant that year. This truck was produced in November 1971 and it was the 163 off the line for year model 1972 fo the Twin Cities plant. The number in the DSO and the number in the serial do not relate to each other. production year if from novembet to october and DSO is from January thru December. Also the D on the body code indicates the interior trim. The D indicates sportcustom with a black vinyl seat not vinyl and cloth. So you just have a truck ordered by someone who wanted it Purple.

Numberdummy who is correct on the D.S.O. matter your wrote on both ebay claiming to be an expert, yet on the fourm site you mock the ebay expert and make claim that he did not say he was an expert on the D.S.O number being the invoice number.

Check out the 1972 Minnesota Purple Eater Truck numberdumby is blogging on.
Item 320213507097 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...MESE:IT&ih=011
Rufubar?

 

I may be a SOB, I may be an A-hole, but I'm not a liar or a bull scheiss artist.

Description of DSO on the ebay listing...'COMPLETE ORDER NUMBER = translates the the COMPLETE ORDER INVOICE NUMBER.

The COMPLETE ORDER NUMBER has no bearing on how many units were built.

 

Didn't know you are a Packard man, My grandfather has pretty much that same sentiment about cars. He worked for his dad at his Packard dealer when he was young and I think it soured him for the rest of his life. I wish they could have kept just one Packard when they (Packard) went under, very beautiful cars and hold their value VERY well.

 

Shot a deer with a .32-20 one time. Darn rifle didnt have any rifling left in it, so had to fire 72 times, good thing he was running in circles... just kidding, he went down on the first shot.